![]() ![]() ![]() This copy is one of those printed for him, in Todd's first issue, with the Effigies leaf in Smith's state C (initial "S" against a filigreed background). Possession of the rights to those 16 plays made Allot the "principal publisher" of the Second Folio, and he received the lion's share of copies. An entry in the Stationers' Register dated 16 November 1630 transferred the rights to 16 Shakespearean plays from Edward Blount to Robert Allot these were 16 of the 18 plays in the First Folio that had not been previously published in quarto playbooks. Copies were allocated between them according to the number of rights held. The original edition was probably 1,000 copies, shared between the five publishers listed in the colophon. ![]() The Second Folio is notable for containing the first appearance in print of the 24-year-old John Milton, his lines ("What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd Bones.") printed anonymously on the Effigies leaf. The Second Folio, first issue, the edition that the Puritan scold William Prynne complained was printed on best crown paper. ![]()
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